Applevariety
Gloucester Royal
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in about 1930 and introduced in 1956; sweet. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Dursley, Gloucestershire
Released 1956
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 70.00 mmHeight 56.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Gloucester Royal began
Recorded origin
Dursley, Gloucestershire
- Released
- 1956
Gloucester Royal’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Gloucester Royal
Dursley, Gloucestershire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
McIntosh → Gloucester RoyalParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 70.00 mm
- height
- 56.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- parentage
- McIntosh x Unknown
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.